what's going on in california? >> well, what's going on in california, which matters a lot, first of all, i want to thank all the veterans out there for their guaranteeing our freedoms. what happened is the public employee union spent 70 million dollars passing this tax increase and defeating a paycheck protection. in doing that, they also swamped us at the ballot box when it came to local races what you saw here and it's a very serious message to the rest of the country -- charles: tom, when you came on varney & company, you knew all of that stuff. what made you think -- listen, you know a lot of money is going to be thrown at this thing. what made you think that somehow californians who have been on this -- a path of economic suicide for decades were going to have an epiphany all of a sudden? >> because they turned down the prior nine straight statewide tax increases and the amount of money that was spent and the amount of quite frankly lying by jerry brown to -- for instance, he went to college students and said